M 6.9 in Peru on 24 Aug 2014 23:21 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1038581
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 101 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.59 , -73.58
Event Date: 24 Aug 2014 23:21 UTC
24 Aug 2014 18:21 Local
Exposed Population:
295188 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Aug 2014 00:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 435 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Boy's letter to tsunami victim sparks meeting with ex-PMThu, 28 Aug 2014 22:21:00 +0200.

A Perth boy's simple act of kindness towards a tsunami orphan leads him to meet a former Japanese prime minister.
[Report] Strength of stick-slip and creeping subduction megathrusts fr ... Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:10:00 +0200.

Megathrusts subducting rugged sea floor have high fault strength but do not unleash great earthquakes. Authors: Xiang Gao, Kelin Wang
[Earthquake Dynamics] Strong yet creeping megathrust faultsThu, 28 Aug 2014 20:10:00 +0200.

Powerful faults in subduction zones, called “megathrust faults,” produce the largest earthquakes on Earth. Gao and Wang use heat flow data to show that when the faults subduct jagged sea – [Read More]
PAM: Endiguer Ebola revient à "plonger au milieu dun tsunami" (AFP)Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:56:00 +0200.

Dakar - Tenter d'arrêter Ebola en Afrique de l'Ouest revient à "plonger au milieu d'un tsunami", a déclaré jeudi à l'AFP la directrice régionale du Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM), qui a accompagné au Liberia et en Sierra Leone le coord
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),